(By request)<p>* The Web Design doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14Ym6LTR9hLBGI0cM0mMU_BDEKG3ysmRsakwzA5Z_Ce4/edit?hl=en_US&authkey=CLWU-ssM<p>* HN Contractors spreadsheet: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlD_6iEb8Ed9dGs3clVJYi0yYVBka181Z0ZKRW9kQ0E&hl=en_US#gid=0<p>* HN Co-founder wishlist spreadsheet: https://spreadsheets1.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=en_US&key=t1_0CjyeF5QqMwgh6AFGtqA&hl=en_US#gid=9<p>* Startup Ideas spreadsheet (now read-only, was writable by all HN pretty sure): https://spreadsheets1.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=en_GB&key=tOGIddn3rPdqKbHWsqaWbiw&hl=en_GB#gid=2<p>* HN internships and interns: https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ASrV38bNy1TlZHhqNjlmel8xMjdmN2Q4em5jZw&hl=en<p>* The SAAS Model Spreadsheet (not crowdsourced/writable, but was very popular): https://spreadsheets0.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?authkey=CN_dm8wH&hl=en&key=tHPkF8Ow9ENfpgz7KpaxKeg&hl=en&authkey=CN_dm8wH#gid=0<p>* The complete list of TED talks by date (not crowdsourced/writable, but still very useful): https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pjGlYH-8AK8ffDa6o2bYlXg&gid=0<p>Context: In the thread about the crowdsourced Google+ Doc/book, I brought up the HN tradition of similarly impressive collaboration. Somebody asked for a list (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2772095).<p>It'd be really cool if you add any I missed in the thread below.<p>[update: Yes, it does occur to me to put them all... in a spreadsheet. :D
And yet I really wanted this to be skimmable without clicking out, etc.
I'm not opposed to putting these (and any contributed below) in a spreadsheet later.]
Clickable links<p>* The Web Design doc:
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/14Ym6LTR9hLBGI0cM0mMU_BDEKG3ysmRsakwzA5Z_Ce4/edit?hl=en_US&authkey=CLWU-ssM" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/document/d/14Ym6LTR9hLBGI0cM0mMU_BDE...</a><p>* HN Contractors spreadsheet:
<a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlD_6iEb8Ed9dGs3clVJYi0yYVBka181Z0ZKRW9kQ0E&hl=en_US#gid=0" rel="nofollow">https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlD_6iE...</a><p>* HN Co-founder wishlist spreadsheet:
<a href="https://spreadsheets1.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=en_US&key=t1_0CjyeF5QqMwgh6AFGtqA&hl=en_US#gid=9" rel="nofollow">https://spreadsheets1.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=en_US...</a><p>* Startup Ideas spreadsheet (now read-only, was writable by all HN pretty sure):
<a href="https://spreadsheets1.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=en_GB&key=tOGIddn3rPdqKbHWsqaWbiw&hl=en_GB#gid=2" rel="nofollow">https://spreadsheets1.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=en_GB...</a><p>* HN internships and interns:
<a href="https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ASrV38bNy1TlZHhqNjlmel8xMjdmN2Q4em5jZw&hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ASrV38bNy1TlZHhqNjlmel8xM...</a><p>* The SAAS Model Spreadsheet (not crowdsourced/writable, but was very popular):
<a href="https://spreadsheets0.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?authkey=CN_dm8wH&hl=en&key=tHPkF8Ow9ENfpgz7KpaxKeg&hl=en&authkey=CN_dm8wH#gid=0" rel="nofollow">https://spreadsheets0.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?authkey=CN_...</a><p>* The complete list of TED talks by date (not crowdsourced/writable, but still very useful):
<a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pjGlYH-8AK8ffDa6o2bYlXg&gid=0" rel="nofollow">https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pjGlYH-8AK8ffDa6o2bY...</a>
Thanks for collecting these all, but I must say, what a shitty and needlessly obtuse way to go about it with all these heavy spreadsheets everywhere. Surely there must be a simpler and better way?<p>They weren't designed to be in tandem or work together at all, but maybe some enterprising hacker can get their name out there by finding a way to use the Docs API to scrape the data from all these and host it on a pretty ajaxified site (like say, hnsheets.com or something) with a MongoDB backend and all the code on Github?<p>Or maybe just put it up on a wiki somewhere. Are there any other better solutions than these slow-crawling and large spreadsheets on Google Docs that anyone else can offer?<p>edit: how about metahn.com with subdirs or subdomains of:<p><pre><code> /directory
</code></pre>
for listing of persons and meta info about them, history of work done, availability for contract work, availability for starting a startup, etc<p><pre><code> /jobs
</code></pre>
with the different internships and jobs posted every month listed and searchable/ordered by different fields/categories<p><pre><code> /misc
</code></pre>
with the other links and/or editable fronts to the data like the listing of TED talks or just links to the other static documents you mentioned.<p>There's already a few spread out hn-related sites like hndir.com[1] for students and hnofficehours.com[2] for general help and consultation between HN'ers but maybe there's room for one more.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.hndir.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hndir.com/</a><p>[2] <a href="http://hnofficehours.com/" rel="nofollow">http://hnofficehours.com/</a>
Here is one that I put together a while ago:
Do you want to be a mentor/adviser to a startup?<p><a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmPJqmiFQCPEdGdQS3VOSWRXV09QVXBqMlpuRjhONEE&hl=en_US#gid=0" rel="nofollow">https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmPJqmi...</a>
FYI, Hackers & Founders Silicon Valley is shortly going to be incorporated as a for benefit corporation (LLC + B Corp cert) to support the early stage startup scene in SV. Also 106 Miles is incorporating as a non profit with a mission of educating entrepreneurial engineers.<p>One of the reasons that we are incorporating at H&F is to be able to maintain a central repo of this type of information. We need the "Moving to SV or NYC or London" wikis. There's a ton of great blog posts on different topics, but it would be really nice to have a centralized place to keep track of all of that.<p>Soon...